Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-07-21
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! from seaweed.
1he Omaha Republican recently issued
a Sunday edition of 40 pages.
Some flashes of Lightning are believed
TO reach length of 10 miles
A church society has bought the site of
skating rink at romah, Wis.
A red -headed negro was recently ar
ranged in an Albany, New York, police
court
There are over 60 men in Sioux
Falls, OAK, who weigh over 200 pounds
each.
Secretary Whitney has bought two
dogs, one costiAg $500 and the other
$1,000.
New York is talking about son who
wears morning because his mother has re-
married.
Sixty thousand carloads OF dusi we're
collected by the street sweepers in New
York few days ego.
Among the articles found on the Ne.
York elevated railroads the past year were
100 umbrellas.
The New York Graphic appeared Non
day without illustrations because OF
strike of its photographers.
Alberga Whitman, of Greensburg, Kan.
is the only negro poet in the state. His
productions are said TO be good.
A policeman attends the meetings
of the colored Methodist church at
Fond du Lac, Wis, in order TO preserve
order
A citizen of Philadelphia, who died
short slime ago, complained in his
will because his wifes dowry was not
larger.
The name of Chicago should loo changed
20 Dublin. There were 262 pairs OF twins
born in that city in 1856.
Justice Harlan's son, who graduated
from Princeton four years ago, is a Pres
byterian minister in New York, on
salary of $4,000 year.
General Sherman is wofully backward
about claiming his usual s.lutatiou in the
case Of the visiting queen.
North Carolina provides her governor
with an official residence, and new
mansion is to be erected at cost OF
$4,000
There are fewer homes and fewer chill
dren in San Francisco, Cal, than in any
city of It's size in the world. IL is prac-
tically a mans city.
The largest real estate sale ever made
in Nebraska happened last week at Oma-
Ia, when over Go acres of land near the
city was disposed of for SGl5,000
George Francis Train is going TO bring
suit TO recover $4,000, 900 worth of prop
erty located in the central pnlt of Kan
sas City, which he says belongs to him.
Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, worth $4,000, 900, lives in plain
brown stone house on Fifty-third street,
Now York, Ho bought the house ready
made
Three ladies' of Mendocino, Cal, while
taking stroll in the woods one Sun.
day, started a deer, which their dog
caught, and the ladies held it and cut
its throat.
A Decatur, ILL.,, man, who LAS been test
! ing tho capacity OF the sparrow TO with
stand the effects of roison, gave one
bird u grain Of crystal strychuine with
out eject.
! IL is singular fact that when two young
men meet they address each other How
are you old many" and that when two
old fellows meet they say, "My boy
NJ j. l.. Schall, of Trinity, Cal. had
hen whose teeth were filled with gold;
that is TO say, he lately killed a hen, and
found two pieces of gold among the grit
! in her gizzard.
| There WAS recently unearthed at Jack
sonvillc, ILL.,, while excavations were being
made for the asy lum for the insane, an
apple which il believed TO have been
| buried II years.
! A marble firm at Mattewan, N. y, has
received from San Francisco Il model of q
monument whigh lady wishes placed
over her husbands grave at West Point,
cut from n loaf OF bread,
Az old colored preacher, after exhaust
ing himself on an attempt TO describe
! heaven, wound up thus: 81 tell you, my
brethren, it is a very Kentucky of
| place
A man and his wife have located at
Sparta. Mich, who will make business
| of looking after the heads of both sexes.
The husband has opened barber shop
ard his wife a millinery store.
There are only three citios in the world
which have a larger scandinavian popHla-
ton than Minneapolis. They are Chris
tiann, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Min
neapolis has 80 600 Scandinavian.